BOSTON — The Red Sox have named Victor Rodriguez their assistant hitting coach. Rodriguez will work with the newly hired hitting coach Greg Colbrunn on the staff of manager John Farrell.

BOSTON — The Red Sox have named Victor Rodriguez their assistant hitting coach. Rodriguez will work with the newly hired hitting coach Greg Colbrunn on the staff of manager John Farrell.

Rodriguez has worked for the Red Sox since 1995. For the last six seasons, he has worked as the team’s roving minor-league hitting instructor. Before that, he worked as the team’s Latin American field coordinator and as a minor-league hitting coach at various affiliates.

Rodriguez played in only 17 major-league games as an infielder with Baltimore and Minnesota — hitting .429 in the process — but played parts of 19 seasons in the minor leagues. He hit .295 with a .331 on-base percentage in his minor-league career. He finished his career at Triple-A Pawtucket in 1995.

The hire of Rodriguez rounds out the Red Sox coaching staff. For the sake of comparison, the coaching staff has been completed one day before the one-year anniversary of the hiring of Bobby Valentine a year ago.

3 not tendered

The Red Sox announced on Friday evening that they have declined to tender contracts to pitchers Scott Atchison and Rich Hill as well as outfielder Ryan Sweeney. All 37 other players on the team’s 40-man roster were tendered contracts — including arbitration-eligible players Alfredo Aceves, Andrew Bailey, Daniel Bard, Jacoby Ellsbury and Jarrod Saltalamacchia.

Sweeney was the most notable player Boston nontendered. The 27-year-old outfielder, acquired as part of the Bailey-Josh Reddick trade last December, hit .260 with a .303 on-base percentage and .373 slugging percentage — including zero home runs — in what will probably wind up being his only season with the Red Sox. He missed time with a concussion early in the season, and he missed the final two months after punching a door out of frustration and breaking his left hand. He was paid $1.75 million last season.

Hill, 32, — who was nontendered a year ago and then brought back on a minor-league contract — made 25 relief appearances for the Red Sox after working his way back from the Tommy John surgery he underwent the previous June. He posted a 1.83 ERA in 192/3 innings, and he struck out 21 while walking 11. He was paid $725,000 last season.

Atchison posted a 1.58 ERA in 511/3 innings last season, striking out 36 and walking nine — easily the best season of his major-league career. The reliever, 36, missed most of the second half with a strained right elbow but returned in mid-September. He was paid $510,000.

All three players could still return to the Red Sox on minor-league contracts, though Atchison and Hill are more likely to do so than Sweeney. Hill was nontendered a year ago and wound up signing a minor-league contract less than a month later.

Of the players tendered contracts, only Aceves could be considered a surprise. Aceves saw his ERA jump from 2.61 in 2011 to 5.36 in 2012, and he butted heads with then-manager Valentine so much that he was suspended three games in August for conduct detrimental to the team. Aceves could still be a candidate to be traded.

With Friday’s announcement, the Red Sox now have roster space to make the signing of Jonny Gomes official.